The GNOME Settings Daemon is responsible for setting various parameters of a GNOME Session and the applications that run under it.
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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-settings-daemon/42/gnome-settings-daemon-42.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-settings-daemon/42/gnome-settings-daemon-42.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: f70b13b8225a4e93e2c6c615380c82e8
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 31 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
alsa-lib-1.2.7.2, colord-1.4.6, Fontconfig-2.14.0, Gcr-3.41.1, GeoClue-2.6.0, geocode-glib-3.26.3, gnome-desktop-42.3, Little CMS-2.13.1, libcanberra-0.30, libgweather-4.0.0, libnotify-0.8.1, libwacom-2.4.0, PulseAudio-16.1, elogind-246.10, and UPower-1.90.0
ALSA-1.2.7, Cups-2.4.2, NetworkManager-1.38.2, nss-3.81, and Wayland-1.21.0
Recommended dependencies are not strictly required for this package to build and function, but you may not get expected results at runtime if you don't install them.
gnome-session-42.0, Mutter-42.3, dbusmock-0.28.4, umockdev-0.17.13, and Xvfb (for tests, from Xorg-Server-21.1.4 or Xwayland-22.1.3)
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-settings-daemon
Next, fix libelogind detection for tests:
sed -e 's/libsystemd/libelogind/' \
-i plugins/power/test.py
Next, fix backlight functionality in gnome-control-center:
sed -e 's/(backlight->logind_proxy)/(0)/' \
-i plugins/power/gsd-backlight.c
Install GNOME Settings Daemon by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -Dsystemd=false .. && ninja
To check the results, execute: ninja test. Note that you must have python-dbusmock installed in order for the tests to complete successfully. Some tests may fail depending on the init system in use.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.